Manufacture of food from cereals.



H. D'. PBRKY, DEOD. AL. SPARKS, ADMINISTRATOR. MANUFAGTURE OP FOOD FROM OEREALS. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1906.

I 2,@ Wittmann l UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

HENRY D. PERKY, or GLnNcoE, MARYLAND; LABAN. SPARKS ADmNIsTRAToR 0F,- SAID HENRY D. PERRY, DEoEAsED. f

'MANUFACTURE or FooD Fitoii cEnEALs.

Specification of Letters Patent. 1 Patented lVIal. 14, 1911..

Application mea January 19, isos. seriarnq, 290,868.

$0 all 'whom it may concern: form length, which are dried inthe vertical Be itknown that I, HENRY D. PERKY, a position'separable `from each other so as to citizen of the United States, and residentof provide 'independent forms or sprays of 5E Glencoe, in the county of Baltimore'v and tender structure,lwhich are homogeneous in State of Maryland, have made a certain new texture and appearance and are' of similar and useful Invention in Methods of Manusize. facturing Food from Cereals; andI declare The perforation-s of th plate employed the following to be a full, clear, and exact are designed to havethin' edgesand are 60v description of the same, such as will enable n preferab y of small diameter. Apertures others skilled 1n the art to which itapperabout one-sixteenth of an inch wide '-Ve tains to make and use the invention.

I good` results for corn. The length of the' a The obJect of the invention is'the repara- Sprays is usually -less than an inch, such tion of grain, and particularly ofp Indian length depending mainly on the consistency 65 corn or maize 1n a novel, palatable and atand" characterof., the material and on the tractive form for food; and the invent-ion size of the perforation. The material is consists in a new process of manufacture, as pressed frombelow upward through the perhereinafter set forth.- -foi-ationsV of the plate until the sprays'have the desired length, their-consistency"being 70 lvarieties having The golden ye lo 25 In the' accompanying; drawings, Fi re 1 represents a press. Fig. 2 a press cy inder witbremovable-heads. Fig. 3 a perforated pla e.. t

Maie, as is well known, exists in` many dierent characteristics., wv corn is distinguished," from the White corn not only because of the' marked contrast in color, but also because of" thevariation in the constituent elements,

white corn having 'a greater proportion of protein, among other differences of minor 1m ortance. a l

n carrymg out thls mvent-lon, the grains are designed to be'deprived of their hulls by means of any ordinary process. The corn` is then ro'und and, mixed with al little more Water t an material, is cooked in' an airf ti ht or nearly air-tightand water-tight vesei such as shown in Fig. 2. by immersing the same in boiling water for. about seven hours for corn, or until the cooking is oompletpd, the time depending upon the kind of grain employed. In this process, the amount ,ofwater is designed to be limited to that which will be taken u by the material in cooking, it being inten ed to avoid the evolution of steam or vapor so far as possible in order to preserve in the cooked article the aroma and other properties of the grain, which might otherwise be carried off or dissipated. The cooked material is then cooled, and then is designed to be pressed through a perforated plate in such a manner as to produce elongated forms or sprays of unisuch that they will upright position. The plate is then 'removed from the press, terminating or cutting off the forms in uniform length, such sections adhering to the perforations of the their ends, and being held or posed thereby in vertical position, and separate from each other. The plate with its charge is then transferred to a drier, the heated air of which, having ready access to all parts of each form, rapidly takes away the moisture leavin the product in condition for use. The p ate with the li'nished sprays held. thereby in upright osition may be taken directly to the table f) sprays may be removed from the plate for packing" in, suitable-cartons for the trade.

.Among other grams, it is-designed to provide these sprays from yellow corn and also `from white corn, and as the sprays mayuhe; 90 made of similar size both' in length and' thickness they may be readily mixed together in properproportions to give the product a llively and agreeable appearance, as well as to provide amxture in which the chemical 98 constituents, ,especially in regard to protein lnayubealteredin regard to'their relative proportions.

Havin Adescribed the invention, what I claim an desire to secure by Letters Patent '1.09

A process of cooking round grain mixed with a limited amount o Water'as' described, 1n an a1r-t1ght vessel, and,` after coollngthe remain on the plate in l plate by 7.5

or consumption, or the cooked material to a* consistency capable of self-support when formed into vertical sprays, pressing a limited amount theijeof in the vertical tions of a plate to form sprays, which because of snch eonsisteney maintain themselves inY separate position, and drying the same While supported on the plate.

direction through perfora-` i In t'estimon whereof I ax mysignature, in presence o two wltnesses.

HENRY D. PERKY.

Witnesses WM. C. BREED L.. S. BUBBANK. 

